Posted by The 6th Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle came to an end on June 21 in São Paulo in fully automated fashion. The jury of this unique battle, PreSeries’ algorithms, predicted with a score of 96.50 out of 100 that Dataholics is the startup most likely to succeed among other contenders. Dataholics captures and structures millions of data points about people on social networks such as Facebook, Linkedin, Google, Twitter, Google search results, blogs, web portals and online services. Their algorithm creates a unified profile for each person based on behavioral, professional and demographic indicators from their email, cell phone, name or ID.
In the battle, all five startups have had the chance to introduce their company during a 5-minute pitch. Later on, PreSeries’ AI took the time to ask some questions to all the contenders about key aspects of their business. The exchange was made possible through a voice-assistant device present on stage (thus the name ‘VC-in-a-box’).
Itera, came in 2nd with a score of 86.81. Itera is a technology company founded in 2008 and established in São Carlos/SP, always aiming to build innovative solutions for its clients. They are now investing in a machine learning platform for text mining named ALICE. The platform is currently focusing on finance, and marketing case studies.
Mr. Descartes got the 3rd position with a score of 62.13. This company provides a chatbot to help cities improve their waste management and sustainability. They work in collaboration with local governments, businesses, and people from the community in order to generate data, educate the public and build lasting partnerships.
Voice Commerce was the 4th startup in the ranking with a score of 62.12. Voice Commerce is a voicebot that provides anyone with a simple, objective and secure online purchase experience through voice commands. It creates the perfect solution for people with visual impairment when buying goods and services online.
Finally, Data H achieved the 5th position with a score of 62.10. DATA H is a startup focused on creating intelligent products and artificial intelligence outsourcing of research and development. DATA H has created its own ecosystem to enable artificial intelligence projects for a diverse set of sectors.
After the event, BigML’s CEO & Co-founder and President of PreSeries, Francisco J. Martin, said: “Having organized our 6th AI Startup Battle in only the last year and a half across the globe, it is amazing to us that humans are surprisingly open and adaptable in trusting PreSeries algorithms to assess the future prospects of startups. What started as a crazy idea has come to be seen as an obvious need. This can be attributed to the investment professionals being overwhelmed with mountains of new data created every day, which in turn highlights the acute need for objective assistance and automation.”
This edition of the battle took place on June 21 in São Paulo, Brazil, at the PAPIs Connect conference, Latin America’s 1st conference on real-world Machine Learning applications. Our next AI Startup Battle will be in Boston (Microsoft N.E.R.D. – MIT) for PAPIs ’17 (Oct. 24-25), stay tuned on Twitter with #AIStartupBattle and @PreSeries.
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